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What does it mean for a cinematic work to be "Chinese"? Does it refer specifically to a work's subject, or does it also reflect considerations of language, ethnicity, nationality, ideology, or political orientation? Such questions make any single approach to a vast field like "Chinese cinema" difficult at best. Accordingly, The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Cinemas situates the term more broadly among various different phases, genres, and distinct nationalconfigurations, while taking care to address the consequences of grouping together so many disparate histories under a single banner.

Opera in the Tropics is an engaging exploration of theater with music in Brazil from early colonial times to the first decades of the nineteenth century.

Sayings of Gorakhnath presents translations of the two largest sections of the Gorakh Bani, an important collection of medieval vernacular Indian texts attributed to the legendary guru Gorakhnath, founder of the influential order of the Nath yogis, who are credited with the development of hatha yoga.

This handbook brings together work by leading scholars of the archaeology of early Christianity in the Mediterranean and surrounding regions. The 34 essays to this volume ground the history, culture, and society of the first seven centuries of Christianity in the latest currents of archaeological method, theory, and research.

Your Sister in the Gospel is the first scholarly biography of Jane Manning James or, for that matter, any black Mormon. Quincy D. Newell chronicles the life of this remarkable yet largely unknown figure and reveals why James's story changes our understanding of American history.

The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt collects thirty original chapters on the diverse oeuvre of one of the most controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. Uniquely located at the intersection of law, the social sciences, and the humanities, it brings together sophisticated yet accessible interpretations of Schmitt's sprawling thought and complicated biography.

This book explores how the institution of public burial for the war dead and images of the deceased in civic and sacred spaces fundamentally changed how Athenians conceived of military casualties, and traces the ways in which people responded through material culture.

In Luminous Emptiness, Yaroslav Komarovski offers an annotated translation of three seminal works on the nature and relationship of Yogacara and Madhyamaka, by Serdok Penchen Shakya Chokden (1428-1507).

Catholic sisters from many countries around the world come to the United States to minister and to study. The authors of this book combined forces to document and understand this phenomenon. Together they located more than 4,000 "international sisters" who are in the United States for formation, studies, or ministry, from 83 countries spread over six continents. This book examines the experience of these sisters in depth and offers valuable suggestions forreligious institutes, Catholic dioceses and parishes, and others who benefit from their contributions.

In Manipulated Agents, Alfred R. Mele examines the role one's history plays in whether or not one is morally responsible for one's actions. Mele develops a "history-sensitive" theory of moral responsibility through reflection on a wide range of thought experiments which feature agents who have been manipulated or designed in ways that directly affect their actions.

Politics in the Marketplace integrates politics, economics, and gender to ask how the Dames des Halles invented notions of citizenship through everyday trade during the French Revolution. While analyzing how marketplace actors shaped nascent democracy and capitalism, it challenges the interpretation that revolutionary citizenship was inherently masculine from the outset.

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The first in-depth examination of revenge in the Odyssey, this book provides a careful analysis of the several revenge plots in the Odyssey - above all, of Odysseus' revenge on the suitors. It argues that Odysseus is an ambivalent hero and that revenge is an unstable organizing principle.

Myisha Cherry's public philosophy podcast UnMute amplifies the work of diverse philosophers working on issues of contemporary social and political relevance by presenting provocative, stimulating, powerful, and yet relaxed interviews that anyone can understand. Gathering together 31 of these interviews, along with other materials such as illustrations, a "Say What?" glossary, and descriptions of how these thinkers first got into philosophy, the book amplifies thisimportant work even further, inviting readers from backgrounds as wide-ranging as those of the people interviewed.

Telegraphies reveals a body of literature in which Americans of all ranks imagine how nineteenth-century telecommunications technologies forever alter the way Americans speak, write, form community, and conceive of the divine.

In this book, Andrew Skotnicki argues that the criminal justice system can only be rehabilitated by eliminating punishment and policies based upon deterrence, rehabilitation, and the incapacitation of the urban poor and returning to the original justification for the practice of confinement: conversion.

Acute Care Casebook provides a case-based approach to the broad practice of acute care medicine, covering a variety of common patient presentations and clinical environments. This book features over 70 illustrated cases, including presentations of trauma and medical illness in wilderness medicine, military and prehospital environments, pediatrics, emergency medicine, and intensive care unit and floor emergencies. Designed for students and trainees inmedicine, nursing, EMS, and other acute care specialties, this text guides readers through not only symptom evaluation and treatment, but also the thought process and priorities of experienced clinicians.

This book studies the social and ethical formation of youthful characters in Greek epic and tragedy. It investigates Cheiron the Centaur, ancient Greece's first teacher; traces the influential trajectory of the Iliadic Achilles; and offers readings of the Odyssey, Sophocles' Ajax and Philoctetes, and Euripides' Hippolytus and Iphigenia in Aulis.

This book is a complete guide to establishing a multi-tiered system of supports to address student behavior in the classroom and other school settings. The book will walk trainees and practitioners through the entire process of assessment of problem behaviors to intervention and progress monitoring.

In the face of climate change, species loss, and vast environmental destruction, Belden C. Lane's spiritually centered environmentalism suggests that we must look to teachers in nature to understand how to save ourselves. Pairing anecdotes of personal encounters with nature with the teachings of spiritual leaders from a range of religious traditions, this book invites us to participate once more in the great conversation among all creatures and the earthitself.

This book examines the electoral successes of anti-system forces in the rich democracies. It explains the rise of anti-system politicians and parties in terms of two separate but closely related developments: the rise of economic inequality and insecurity over the last four decades, and the failure of technocratic elites to address them.

This expanded and updated fifth edition presents Caroli's keen political analysis and astute observation of recent developments in First Lady history. Caroli here contributes a new preface and updated chapters.

Community Power and Empowerment synthesizes research and practice on the topics of community power and empowerment, and by doing so address key questions in the practice community psychology and related fields. The first section of the book will provide foundational information on community power and empowerment; the second, roles played by human development and organizational development in social change, and how empowerment relates to health. The bookguides readers in designing empowering practices and interventions, as well as programs of research and evaluation.

In sermons, letters, and ascetic traditions, late ancient Christians imagined the last minutes of life and the events that followed death in elaborate detail. This book traces this early tradition of imagining the experience of dying and points to its consequences in later Christian thought.

Using Basic Personality Research to Inform the Personality Disorders will present the work of prominent thinkers at the intersections of social, personality, developmental, and clinical psychology to consider theoretical and empirical issues relevant to how basic personality research can inform the scientific understanding of personality pathology. Surveying cutting-edge research on the science of basic personality and demonstrating how these ideas andmethods can be applied to the conceptualization of pathology, the book first provides a historical overview, followed by an account of the current state of the personality disorder literature.

Documenting the history and development of bluegrass in and around the nation's capital since it emerged in the 1950s, Capital Bluegrass: Hillbilly Music Meets Washington, D.C. is central to our understanding of bluegrass in the United States and its place in our nation's capital.

With original essays by philosophers, psychologists, musicians, literary critics, and ethno-musicologists, The Philosophy of Rhythm offers a broad perspective on rhythm-the fundamental pulse that animates music, dance, and poetry across all cultures.

This handbook offers new arguments about the ways that dance improvisation informs understandings of history, socio-cultural conditions, lived experience, and technologies.

Baseball is a strange sport: it consists of long periods in which little seems to be happening, punctuated by high-energy outbursts of rapid fire activity. Some find it dull; yet as philosopher and baseball fan Alva No¿rgues in this concise, entertaining book, nothing could be further from the truth, for baseball is the most philosophically profound of all sports. Here No¿eflects on and explores the many unexpected ways in which baseball is truly aphilosophical kind of game, in particular how it is

Catholic Bishops in the United States: Church Leadership in the Third Millennium presents the results of a 2016 survey conducted by the Center of Applied Research for the Apostolate. It reveals the U.S. bishops' individual experiences, their day-to-day activities, their challenges and satisfactions as Church leaders, and their strategies for managing their dioceses and speaking out on public issues. This book provides a much-needed up-to-date andcomprehensive view of how United States bishops are leading their Church in the era of Pope Francis.